Victor Grosser

Victor Grosser (1925-) was an American construction union boss who headed Local 415 in Queens, New York City during the 1950s.

Biography
Victor Grosser was born in New York City, New York in 1925 to a family of German descent, and he worked in construction before becoming a union organizer for Local 415. By 1959, Grosser emerged as the boss of the union, and he became a corrupt official. In February 1959, Grosser contacted mob boss Dominic Corleone about doing a favor for him. The Liberty Bank used non-union workers to build the bank and refused to hire unionized workers for a maintenance contract, so he decided to make the bank into a "public hazard" by having Corleone bomb it. The Trapani crime family bombed the gas main of the bank, destroying the building. The bank was forced to use Grosser's union men to rebuild it, and Grosser returned the favor by ensuring that Corleone's businesses would be speedily rebuilt by his union men if they were ever bombed by rival families.